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Bedbugs in hotels

Is it possible to tell that the bed on which u
sleep is infested with bed bugs? The real truth is, it can be difficult to spot
beg bugs especially during the day as they are nocturnal and their nests which are
very tiny will be hidden within the dark crevices under the bed. Since bedbugs
got their name for a reason as they tend to live around bed or mattress.

People believe that only the unhygienic and
the dirty hotels get bedbugs but the truth is that all hotels get bedbugs. Whether
it would be the cheapest hotel or the five star one, all hotels get bed bugs
from time to time. Therefore any hotel in the world can be infested with bed
bugs.

These little bedbugs have nothing to do with
the hygiene they can simply enter by someone’s luggage and can make their home
in the beds enjoying a meal that is feeding on our blood while we are sleeping.

Let’s have a look at some of the evidence,

Disneyland Hotel
guest ‘absolutely butchered’ by bedbugs

Ivy Eldridge, who visited the park with her
family in April 2018, is claiming she suffered both physical and emotional
damage after waking up at Anaheim’s Disneyland Hotel covered in bedbug bites,
according to a lawsuit filed earlier last week, The Los Angeles
Times and Fox News report.

Ms Eldridge also claims she required medical
treatment following the incident.

Ms
Eldridge’s lawyer Brian Virag, of legal firm My Bed Bug Lawyer, Inc, filed the
lawsuit on her behalf, and named Walt Disney Co. and Disney Parks and Resorts
as defendants in addition to Disneyland Hotel.

“People
put trust in the Disney name and pay top dollar to stay at Disneyland Hotel. In
this case, Ms Eldridge’s trust was betrayed,” Mr Virag said in an article
posted to the My Bed Bug Lawyer website.

“This
was not a situation where a person sustained one or two bites. Ms Eldridge was
bitten throughout her body, including, but not limited to her face, ears, neck,
arms, and back.

“She
was absolutely butchered.”

The
lawsuit further claims that Disneyland was aware of the bedbug infestation, but
did not take the appropriate steps to rectify it.

A
spokesperson for Disneyland did not comment on the lawsuit but told Fox News
the resort took “extensive preventive measures” to keep guests safe.

A
British couple say they were left traumatised after they were bitten
by bedbugs during their Spanish getaway.

Sue and John
Berry claim to have suffered dozens of bites all over their bodies at a
four-star hotel just three days into their two-week, £2,000 holiday.

The retirees are
now so fearful of the parasitic insects that they haven’t been on holiday since
then.

And they claim
that they have been “passed from pillar to post“after complaining to the tour
operator who sold them the trip.

Sue
told the Liverpool Echo that she and her husband were left
“mentally scarred” and embarrassed as strangers stared at their
bites.

The couple, from
Melling, Merseyside, went on the trip to Levante Park Hotel in Cala Bona,
Majorca, in August last year after booking with Tui Gold (formerly Thomson
Gold).

They said the
company hasn’t responded to their latest correspondence.

Sue, 63, said:
“It was my husband’s first holiday away in ten years and within a couple of
days it was ruined. I had bites all over my body and he had them on his legs.

“They were on my
neck and chest. We looked like we had a disease. I was really embarrassed and
it felt like everyone was looking at us.”

Sue said that she
was told by a maid that the bites were the work of bedbugs that had infested
the room.

At one stage the
“infestation” got so bad Sue said they woke up in the middle of the night and
could feel the bugs crawling on them.

She added: “We
asked to move rooms and they said the hotel was full and it wasn’t possible.

“I was so
exhausted and started to cry with frustration as we were covered in bites and
it was so sore and uncomfortable.

“That night we
sprayed the bed with something the maid had given us but woke up and could see
the bugs crawling over us and the bed.“

Since returning
home Sue said she and her 67-year-old husband are yet to go on another holiday
for fear of wasting their money and being affected again.

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